[oman-l] Sport in Oman. (contacts)

[Tommy Back]

Prince of Arabia (thought that was myself) wrote:

From: Prince of Arabia <Mido@Bigfoot.com>


Hi there,

        Just want to add a point to what Rashid said. Well, the main      
reason
that the Omani Sport teams r not very good can refer to                
that all of
the players got JOBs to take care of instead of                 being free
for sports.
In my opinion, to get good skills and to        improve levels of players
is
to give them a JOB called sports                only. In this way they can
get the
reliable skills very fast.              Normally most of them got their own
jobs
which take them for the         most of the day. If we c the sport teams in
Europe for example,     we will find that the players r getting trainings
for long hours  everyday and they dont have other involvements with any
other           job. This is what makes them professionals and got great
skills 
and very famous worldwide!. 

        Any comments r most welcome!
                
                         Regards, Humaid Al-Balushi
                         http://members.tripod.com/~Humaid
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Humaid,
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